The MA in English rapper, off Broadway performer, and apostle for Charles Darwin, Baba Brinkman will engage students with his “Rap Guide to Evolution.” Recruited to help promote evolution by the Royal Darwin Society, Baba's Darwin rap is fun, very inclusive, and provocative. Baba Brinkman is a Canadian actor and rap artist and former tree-planter who has personally planted more than one million trees. Baba has received international acclaim for his rap comedy theatre shows, which cover topics as diverse as evolutionary psychology, the Canterbury Tales, democracy, and civil disobedience. Last year he won the Scotsman Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe for his “Rap Guide to Evolution,” which is transferring to New York in 2011. When he is not on tour, Baba resides in his hometown of Vancouver.